Damião de Góis

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Damião de Góis. Portrait of Albrecht Dürer

Damião de Góis , also: Damião de Goes , Latinized: Damianus de Goes and Damiani a Goes , (born February 2, 1502 in Triana / Alenquer , Portugal; † January 30, 1574 in Alcobaça ) was a Portuguese diplomat and historian .

biography

Portrait of Damião de Góis, possibly by Jan Gossaert

The ancestor of Damião and therefore also the family of the counts Goëss was Dom AMIA since Estrada from Santo Vincente da Barca in Asturias who with Count Henry of Burgundy after Portugal came and rendered valiant service in 1109 the rule Góis than ricohombre the feud was .

Góis came to the court of King Dom Manoel in his ninth year , studied in Padua , became Portuguese chargé d'affaires in Flanders in 1523, later at the court of King Siegmund of Poland in Vilnius , then in Denmark and Sweden .

After visiting Italy , he lived in Leuven , where he married Johanna (* 1515), daughter of André van Hargen, seigneur de Estorique and Mathilde van der Duyn in 1538. When the French took the city in 1542, he was captured and only released for a large ransom.

In 1546 he was from King John III. Appointed to Lisbon as a historiographer and archivist , but later imprisoned by the Inquisition for heretical inclinations and interned in the Batalha monastery . Two years after he was released from prison, he died under unknown circumstances on January 30, 1574 in Alenquer.

As an educated and versatile humanist, he became a writer, musician, composer, art collector and patron. The triptych The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch is often included in his art collection .

Works

Title page from Ubis Olisiponis descriptio 1554
  • Deploratio lappianae gentis . Geneva 1520
  • Legatio Magni Indorum Imperatoris Presbyteri Ioannis . Antwerp 1532
  • Commentarii rerum gestarum in India . Lions 1539
  • Fides, religio moresque Aethiopum . Lions 1540
  • Damiani a Goes eqvitis Lvsitani aliqvot opvscvla . Lions 1544
  • Urbis Olisiponis descriptio . Évora 1554
  • Crónica do Felicíssimo Rei D. Manuel . Lisbon 1566
  • Crónica do Principe D. João . Lisbon 1567
  • 1532-1538 trabalhos de tradução e comentário leitura diplomatica e versao portuguesa by Miguel Pinto de Meneses; edicao, intr. e notas de Manuel Cadafaz de Matos . Obras de Damião de Góis; 1. Lisboa: Távola Redonda, 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Ernst Eillen v. Hartmann-Franzenshuld, Custos at the kuk Münz- und Antikenkabinett: “History of Count Goess 1100 - 1873 - With 3 family tables and 5 coat of arms woodcuts”, printed and published by Carl Finsterbeck, Vienna 1873
  2. ↑ http://www.geneall.net/D/fam_names.php?id=11772
  3. ^ Virginia Pitts Rembert: Hieronymus Bosch , Parkstone International, 2012, ISBN 978-1906981617 , p. 152

literature

  • Elisabeth Feist Hirsch: Damião de Gois, The life and thought of a Portuguese humanist, 1502–1574. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1967.
  • Siegbert Uhlig and Gernot Bühring: Damian de Góis' work on the beliefs and customs of the Ethiopians. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994. Ethiopian research; Vol. 39. ISBN 3-447-03512-9
  • Paul Wilhelm Genrich: Damião de Góis in Archive for Reformation History (ARG) 1942, 39 vol. 3 issue pp. 197–220

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personal data
SURNAME Góis, Damião de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goes, Damiao de (Meyers); Góis, Damian de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese diplomat and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1502
PLACE OF BIRTH Alenquer (Portugal)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1574
Place of death Alenquer (Portugal)